Publisher's Synopsis
"Mind training", or lojong in Tibetan, is a method for practising the golden rule, of learning to love your neighbour as yourself. Tibetans revere the mind training tradition for its practical and down-to-earth advice, especially the teachings on turning adversity into opportunity. The key to happiness, says mind training, is not a life free of problems but rather a heart free of resentment and clinging, and Essential Mind Training is full of guidance for cultivating new habits of the heart. Translated by the Dalai Lama's own translator, this volume contains eighteen individual works from the earliest collection of mind-training literature, including such renowned classics as Eight Verses on Training the Mind and the Seven-Point Mind Training. The techniques offered here, by enhancing our capacity for compassion, love, and perseverance, can give us the freedom to embrace the world.
